Artillery Command 2

Artillery Command 2 - ArtKdo 2 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	July 1, 1972 to 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Type	Artillery Command
Insinuation	II Corps
Staff seat	Ulm

The Artillery Command 2 was one of the artillery commands of the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters of the artillery commander was Ulm . The Artillery Command 2 was part of the corps troops of the II Corps .

assignments

The artillery command bundled the most extensive artillery systems of the artillery troops at the level of the corps . Depending on the situation , the corps artillery increased the firepower of the divisional artillery . In the final phase of the Cold War , the rocket artillery of the artillery command was able to use tactical nuclear weapons with their Lance systems within the framework of nuclear participation . To own fire too far-reaching plan , the artillery commander with the rank possessed brigadier general or colonel last alongside troops of the topography troops also drones whose reconnaissance results and the commanding general of the corps and the commanders of subordinate divisions could be made available. Overall, the size of the artillery command corresponded roughly to one of the brigades of the field army.

structure

Tactical sign Artillery Command 2

Around 1989 the artillery command was roughly divided into:

• Staff / Staff Battery Artillery Command 2, Ulm
  • Drone battery 200, Munich
  • Rocket Artillery Battalion 250 , Engstingen (4th battery as rocket artillery training battery in peacetime for Artillery Training Regiment 5 )
  • Supply battalion special weapons 220, Günzburg
  • Security Battalion 200 ( GerEinh ), Engstingen

See also : Division of the Field Army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) # Artillery Command 2 , Special Ammunition Depot Golf and 59th Ordnance Brigade

history

The artillery command was set up from 1971 to take over Army Structure III and put into service in mid-1972. The staff of Corps Artillery Commander 2, who had been at the side of the commanding general since 1959, was used for the setup . This position in turn emerged from the corps artillery commander 402, which was planned in Ulm in 1957 .

1977 the conversion from Sergeant to Lance took place .

After the end of the Cold War, the declared nuclear planning group of NATO in 1991 the abandonment of nuclear artillery systems in Germany. Most of the American special ammunition was withdrawn from Germany. The artillery command was therefore decommissioned in 1994 around the same time as the reclassification of the II Corps to the II (German-American) Corps.

See also : Nuclear weapons in Germany

Association badge

Internal association badge of the staff / staff battery

The artillery command did not have its own association badge due to its planning as part of the dependent corps troops . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the higher corps .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff battery " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire artillery command. Essentially, as a reference to the stationing area in the quartered shield, it showed the Bavarian diamonds , Württemberg Staufer lions and the federal eagle and, similar to the beret badge of the artillery troops, two crossed cannon barrels on the red weapon color of the artillery.

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

See also

• Military in Ulm

Individual evidence

1. ^ OW Dragoon: The Bundeswehr 1989 . Army Office. I. Corps. II Corps. III. Corps. 4th edition. 2.1 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 3, 2018]).

Web links

• Peter Hall: Locations of the rocket artillery battalions "Lance" (1985). In: Surface-to-Surface Missiles - Military, Historical and Technical Aspects . Retrieved January 13, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '3.4 "  N , 9 ° 58' 55.2"  E